We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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